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Originally Posted by andrewmel
I agree, it does look like it might be a while before it happens, if at all.
But the smart playlists are a very nifty way of dealing with things. Just wish there was an easy way around that album sorting problem that didnt involve naming all albums with
(year) album name
which would stuff up ordering them by album. It works well in a filetree....
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I'm too lazy to find a link for the appropriate Rockbox thread, but nobody is even working on cracking the encryption. Nobody's cracked the encryption on the 2nd gen Nano, for that matter. A real pity. I think the constant release of new iPods -- along with the tendency of a lot of people to upgrade to newer iPods -- may provide a disincentive to work on Rockbox ports for the iPod line. By the time a port for a particular model is working really well, the number of potential users will have plummeted. Of course, you could always get lucky -- a handful of programmers who want to keep using their old iPods decide to go to the trouble of making a port mainly for their own use.
Anyway, I'm surprised that you say iTunes can't do what you want. You can certainly use multiple sort properties for a single playlist in Mediamonkey. For example, you could create a playlist of all Beatles tracks, and then have the tracks sorted by year, and then, within each year, by album, which I think would give the result you want.
I'm using the latest release candidate of Mediamonkey 3 with my H340, but it also supports iPod.